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"Shadow and Substance" is being presented tonight, Friday and Saturday night, in the Multi-purpose
room of the Education Building. Student activity tickets will be honored at the door. The
arena-type play is a two-act tragic comedy, with the setting in Ireland. Among the characters
are those shown above. They are, from left to right, Pat Beck, Larry Anderson. Ray J. Harshfield,
Roger DeBourg, and Ron Sexton,
Leiters Awarded Cage
Stars at Dinner
Approximately 72 persons at-tended
the annual Eastern basket-ball
dinner, which was held in the
Student Union Building last Sun-day.
Toastmaster and co-captain
of the basketball team, John Dee-ney,
introduced the following
speakers: President A. G. Peter-son,
Dr. Harold "Shorty" Altero-witz,
chairman of the Health,
Physical Education and Recrea-tion
Dept.; Keith Thomas, coach
of the Junior Varsity basketball
team; and Gerry Polesky, co-cap-tain
of the basketball team.
Varsity letters were awarded to
the following: Gerry Polesky, John
Deeney, John Dracon, Harry
Svela, Ken Benner, and George
McLouff, all of Billings; Lynn
Homer of Dixon; Jim Haugen of
Sidney; Don Marlow of Stanford;
Nick Jurkovich of Red Lodge;
Tom Mercer of Hyattville; Dean
Henderson of Noxon; and Gene
Kiser of Green River, Wyo.
Junior Varsity letters were
granted to: Duke McDermott, Jim
Pratt, Ron Ewing, Corwin Al-brecht,
Jim Vukonvich, Frank
Gallagher, Barry Markuson, and
Lloyd Lockrem, all of Billings;
Bill Hilton, Ted Norman, and Mar-vin
Carter of St. Ignatius; Bob
Smith and Charles Howe of Great
Falls; Warden Fenton of Hysham;
Jim Nucum of Baker; Don Rider
of Hardin; Larry Esp of Big Tim-ber;
and Don Cramer of Forsyth.
Other honored guests attending
were: Dean and Mrs. Lincoln Ai-kins,
Dean and Mrs. Charles
Price, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. John-son,
Wally Streeter, Dr. and Mrs.
Dale Daugherty, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Lutzker, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Peiss, Mr. and Mrs. "Red" Welsh,
Mr. and Mrs. John Arp, Miss Lu-cille
Murray, Miss Angeline Ek-strand;
parents, relatives and
wives of several of the players;
and the cheerleade rs, Pat Fergu-son,
Kathy Jabs, Marion Listoe,
Ida Jones, and Ila Hart.
Entertainment was provided by
Miss Ferguson and Miss Listoe,
and the evening was culminated
by the beautiful candlelight cere-monies
of the "E" Club.
SPOTTED FEVER SHOTS
The second in a series of tick
shots will be conducted in the
Health Services Department on
Friday, March 1, between 9 and
10 a.m., according to Miss Berna-dette
Martin, Director of Health
Services.
EASTERN'S SWEETHEART
Sally Fraser was crowned
Sweetheart Queen by Mick Miller,
Sophomore class president, at the
Ball held last Saturday night. The
Queen and her attendants each
received an Eastern Gold Seal.
The Sweetheart Ball was well
a t t end e d by students. The
St. Valentine theme was carried
out with mobiles and table dec-orations.
The Queen's attendants
were Beverly Dubuque, Kathryn
Erickson and Gail Birkeland.
Miss Fraser is a popular fresh-man
student, majoring in sec-ondary
education.
Much credit for the success of
the dance goes to Gerry Ruff and
her committee heads, Ted Clark,
Kathy Jabs, Kathy Erickson, Bev-erly
Dubuque, Peggie Burtness,
Carol Twedt, and Dean Graunke.
Forensics Group Enters
Oregon Tournament
Three speech students will rep-resent
the college at the Inter-collegiate
Tournament of Cham-pions
at Linfield College, Mc-
Minnville, Oregon, in a forensics
tournament March 6 to 10, ac-cording
to Dean F. Graunke, EM-CE
director of forensics.
The invitational tournament is
the oldest one of its kind in the
West, with west coast college en-tries
dominating, Graunke said.
There will be entries from Stan-ford,
University of Washington,
Oregon, California, and every state
west of the Mississippi. Some
Eastern universities will also be
represented in this tournament.
Representing Eastern will be
Terrence Taylor, Ron Fisher and
Jacqueline Swan. Taylor and Fish-er
will be paired in debate and
will enter interpretative readings
and impromptu speaking. Miss
Swan will be entered in interpre-tative
readings and Women's Con-gress.
The Congress and impromptu
speakers will discuss the issue of
World Disarmament. The Discon-tinuance
of Foreign Aid, which
has already been used by the EM-CE
debate squad, will be contin-ued
in the Oregon tournament.
The trio will deliver excerpts
from Billy Budd, Anastasia, and
Dial M for Murder.
Hornets to Tangle in
District Cage Tourney
The Eastern Yellowjackets will
be one of the teams entered in
the District 5 NAIA basketball
tournament, which will be played
in the Shrine Auditorium March
4 and 5, according to Coach Shorty
Alterowitz. The District 5 tourna-ment
was recently transferred
from Bozeman to Billings.
The winner of the tournament
at the Shrine will compete in
the national basketball tourna-ment
on March 11 to 17.
Three powers in the Montana
Collegiate Conference, Rocky
Mountain College and Eastern
Montana College of Education,
both of Billings, and Western
Montana College of Education of
Dillon, will be in the tourney.
The fourth team will be North-west
Nazarene College from Nam-pa,
Idaho. Rocky, with an 18-5
record, and Northwest Nazarene,
19-5, will meet in one of the open-ing
games and Western and East-ern
tangle in the other.
Each team is allowed 10 play-ers
in the tourney and the winners
of the first night's play meet for
the district championship and a
trip to the national, Herb Klindt
said.
Eastern and Western meet in the
opener at 7:15 p. m. March 4 and
Rocky and Nazarene battle in the
second game.
IS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
The chairmanship of the Audio-
Visual Techniques Committee of
t h e American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portu-guese
has been accepted by Dr.
Dwight 0. Chambers, chairman of
the Modern Language Department
at Eastern.
Professor C. A. Tyre of New
Mexico College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts is president of
AATSP. A national organization,
it is the largest specific language
organization of its kind.
Vol. 10, No. 19 Eastern Montana College of Education, Billings February 28, 1957
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'Four American Painters
An art exhibit, "Four American
Painters," giving a survey of what
is being done in painting in Am-erica
today, is being shown from
now until March 25 in the Stu-dent
Union lounge at Eastern
Montana College of Education.
The Billings ' Arts Association
and EMCE Art Department are
co-sponsors of the exhibit, ac-cording
to Miss Isabelle Johnson,
chairman of the EMCE Art De-partment.
Organized by the Du-veen-
Graham Galleries in New
York, the exhibit has been shown
in a number of Western cities.
Some of the paintings in the
show are 58 x 68 inches in size.
The modern American painters
represented are Keith Martin, At-tilio
Salemme, Irving Kriesberg,
and Karl Holty.
The exhibition will be open to
the public daily from 8 a. m. un-til
5 p. m. and evenings Mon-day
through Thursday from 7
until 10 o'clock.
A special showing of the ex-hibit
will be made on Sunday,
March 3. There will be a coffee
and reception in the EMCE Stu-dent
Union lounge from 6 until
9 p. m.
At the reception, Bob Morrison
of the Billings Public Schools
Exhibit Being Shown
will give a Gallery talk at 7 p, m,
Miss Isabelle Johnson will give
another Gallery talk at 8 p. m.
Those in charge of the recep-tion
are Mrs. Walter Gray, Mrs.
Fay Kuhlman, Virginia Snook,
Orlin Helgce, Peggy Burtness and
Sharon Bumgarner.
FIELD THEORY OF LAUGHTER
It cannot be denied that laughter is universal; however the things
that make people laugh are as varied and multifarious as individuals
themselves. The element of incongruity remains constant in all humor,
but just what appears incongruent and why, are questions with not
so constant answers. There is an educational theory, that not only
explains the inadequate incongruity theory, but clarifies it to meet
all situations. It can be stated as follows: the amount of laughter
is equal to the exposure of the individual to congruity as it is revealed
in textbooks (formal education) over the incongruity observed (hum-orous
situation).
The diligent student will observe that there may be some in-consistency
in interpreting just what appears incongruent to dif-ferent
people. This inconstant can be resolved by another equation
stated thus: what appears incongruent to an individual equals his
ideals divided by the subtlety with which these ideals are under-mined.
Where as the first equation deals with the amount of humor
and subsequent laughter.
These two equations can be seen in operation in our every day
lives. In order to simplify the multi-runged academic ladder we will
divide it into four broad areas, or groups, analogous (which is the
only way truth can be explained) to the different stages of film de-velopment
found in photography. We shall simply call them the
"new," the "exposed," the "negative," and the "developed" stages,
in which the film, shutter and image are analogous to one's mind,
the textbook and the mental impression from the textbook, respec-tively.
The first section, or the "new" group is so-called because an in-dividual
in this stage has not yet absorbed any textual material, and
is generally on the first plain of experience, i.e. the physical. Al-though
this type is found throughout the gamut, it is most prominent
in the age group three to six. An example of someone in this division
would be the little boy who sees a dog wearing a hat. His ideal belief
is that only people wear hats; there is little subtlety in the situation,
therefore the laugh, explosive though it may be, is short-lived.
The second group, or the "exposed" level, embraces all who have
begun the art of learning. By no means master of the printed volume,
they are at least aware of it and its orderly presentation of life.
This group represents all students up to, and including, the twelfth
grade. Upon hearing someone went into a crematorium and asked,
"What's cookin?" they would laugh and accept the situation as hum-orous.
Although this situation is on a higher plain than the last one,
because it reveals incongruity in a person's mental make-up as well
as a humorous physical situation, it still fails to meet the require-ments
of the last two stages. There it would draw a gutteral "uuoauh"
or maybe a orderly "Ha (pause) Ha (pause) Ha."
The "negative" level of academacy comes into its own during the
first three years of college. This is a time when many of the organ-ism's
beliefs are being settled, and one of these beliefs is not to be-lieve
anything too firmly. In this area, the world becomes a rigid
machine, each cog representing a body of knowledge with its little
cogs and gears. Here, in order to be humorous, an incident or object
must have a further departure from congruity. The proportion of
subtlety must also be increased. The story of the well-dressed in-dividual
who ordered a meal in a fancy restraunt would be appropri-ate
here. When asked why he smeared the spaghetti all over his hair
and face, he exclaimed, "Spaghetti, I thought it was succotash!"
The last class, or the "developed," is a unique group—they are
college seniors. Long hours or reading exact textbooks, and of fol-lowing
immutable study-schedules have prepared them for the life to
follow. Mere humor and plain subtlety will riot cause their lips to
part and form a condescending smile, much less laugh. It takes some-thing
far different, something like this: "What's the difference be-tween
a banana?—An orange because it hasn't got a vest!" The laugh
doesn't come immediately. When he does comprehend the significance
of this compact bit of complete nonsense in a clocklike universe it is
too much. A joke like this will be good for hilarious roars as well as
deep chuckles for a good many years to come. If any would scoff at
this final illustration (especially you who are not seniors), let him
read it closely after he has had his nose in a nine-hundered and
thirty-two page text book for three hours.—Bob Halverson.
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Science Students Gain Best Foundation at Eastern
Science and Mathematics Departments Note a
Decade of Progress on the Eastern Campus
The decade ending with the
year 1956 is a decade of progress
for the Department of Mathe-matics
and Science at Eastern
Montana College. Starting with
one instructor, with courses for
elementary teachers in rock study
and bird study, the decade shows
a gradual change to nine full or
part time instructors, and courses
in the principal branches of sci-ence
and mathematics, biology,
chemistry, botany, bacteriology,
physics, zoology, and mathemat-ics,
and providing for curricula in
all the leading pre - professional
fields in science.
From a physical standpoint,
teaching 10 years ago was all done
in two rooms on the third floor
of the Administration Building;
while now the department of sci-ence
and mathematics occupies the
major portion of a modern build-ing
with splendid laboratories,
and in the near future will need
the entire building and will need
to equip at least two more rooms
as laboratories.
Prof. William Hoheisel, who
teaches courses in zoology, gener-al
biology, anatomy and physi-ology,
ornithology,general geology
and others, is the senior member
of this faculty, and was the only
member of the science and math-ematics
staff as the decade opened.
He was the first chairman of the
department, and has been chair-man
twice.
The chairmanship of the science
department is on a rotation basis
with various members of the fac-ulty
taking terms for a year at
a time, in order of their senior-ity.
The current chairman is Ol-iver
W. Peterson. He and George
H. Gloege have also been chair-man
for two different terms.
One of the first things that Dr.
A. G. Peterson did when he took
the position of President of East-ern
was to bring in Dean Lincoln
J. Aikins to start a basic or junior
college curriculum. Mr. Aikins
has provided the leadership to de-velop
the various basic studies at
Eastern and in common with the
other curricula has been very
much interested in the develop-ment
of the Department of Sci-ence
and Mathematics.
Soon after his arrival at East-ern,
Dr. Peterson began plans for
the construction of the Science
Building, and in 1947 legislative
approval was given for the build-ing
which was then constructed
and opened officially for use in
the fall of 1949. This building is
one of the finest science buildings
of its kind and for uses for which
intended in this region. Its lab-oratories
are well lighted, spa-cious,
and nicely equipped for
the courses now being taught.
The Science and Mathematics
Department faculty members are
of at least two more laboratories,
which were "roughed in" when the
building was built for use as class-rooms
until they could be
changed and equipped as new lab-oratories.
At present there are
four biology laboratories on the
first floor, two chemistry and two
physics laboratories on the second
floor. Several of the classrooms
are set up for lecture demonstra-tions,
and there is an auditorium
which seats 210 persons.
With expansion of the science
and mathematics curriculum new
faculty positions opened. The sec-ond
member of the staff, Mr.
George H. Gloege, came in 1946,
and currently teaches courses in
general chemistry, qualitative
and quantitative analysis and or-ganic
chemistry. Mr. Oliver W.
Peterson came to Eastern in 1947
to teach mathematics and physics.
Miss Rosemary Milkovitch joined
the department in 1953 and teach-es
mathematics.
Dr. Dallas A. Sutton and Dr.
Wilson F. Clark came to Eastern
in 1954. Dr. Sutton teaches gener-al
biology, botany, zoology, bac-teriology
and courses in the teach-ing
of science in the elementary
schools. Dr. Clark's field is the
conservation of natural resources,
and in addition he is currently
teaching general physics and gen-eral
chemistry.
Mr. 0. L. Alm, who is registrar
at Eastern joined the staff in 1955
and teaches introduction to phys-ical
science and science for sec-ondary
teachers. Mr. Edwin Dol-ney
joined the staff in 1956 to
teach mathematics. Mr. Jack S.
Gordon, who is associated with
a consulting engineering firm,
teaches mechanical drawing and
descriptive geometry.
The expansion in the depart-ment
of science and mathematics
has been the result of a gradual
increase in the number of students
pursuing courses in science, and
enrolled in the many pre-profes-sional
science curricula. Begin-ning
courses in science and math-ematics
are taxing the facilities
available, and several of the
courses have enrollments in ex-cess
of 100 students, which calls
for the sectioning of the labora-tory
work into smaller groups to
accommodate them.
While it may seem unusual for
a college of education to offer
such an extended science and
mathematics curriculum, it should
be pointed out that in addition to
supplying training in these fields
to prospective teachers, the college
has 50 percent of its students in
non-teaching fields, and is fur-nishing
its services to the youth
of Eastern Montana in preparation
for professional training in many
fields in addition to teaching.
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A secondary education student-teacher from Eastern, Roger
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Lewis & Clark Junior High School. This honor was accorded
Roger because of his service to students while he was gaining ex-perience
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Carroll also lead at halftime,
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it with two consecutive baskets
by Svela and Dracon.
Eastern Lineup: Dracon (19),
Kiser (18), Polesky (12), Deeney
(11), Benner (10), Svela (7),
Mercer (3).
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is 3:15 Monday in the gym.
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Hornets Drop Finale
In Closing Seconds
As a climax to the Montana
Collegiate Conference basketball
schedule, Eastern fought its hard-est
game against Carroll College
Friday night.
During the entire season, the
final seconds of play have decided
almost every important contest.
One of these games with Rocky
ended in a 61-60 defeat. The
Jackets, however, have also been
on the winning end of such fi-nales.
The Hornets defeated the West-ern
Bulldogs 74-70 and 68-65.
Carroll bowed to the Yellowjack-ets
in the last seconds of the pre-vious
contest 70-68.
The score, Friday night, was
knotted 17 times. With only five
seconds remaining, the winning
basket was scored by Carroll
Saints and the defeat was an 82-
80 loss for the Yellowjackets.
Like many colleges and univer-sities
throughout the nation, East-ern's
parking problem continues,
according to Mr. M. E. Johnson,
chairman of the Building and
Grounds Committee. By commit-tee
action, a full-time person will
be added to the college's Main-tenance
Department to look after
parking problems.
It was reported that only about
one--fourth of the cars on the
campus have been re-registered
to date. Students must re-register
their cars, according to the state
regulations, and warnings and
fines will be adminitsered as soon
as the additional person has been
hired, the committee reports.
Some colleges, including UCLA
and Denver University, are charg-ing
daily fees for parking of cars.
Strict regulations have also been
instituted at Montana State Col-lege
at Bozeman and Montana
State University at Missoula.
A recent news report from Ral-leigh,
N. C. reports the North Car-olina
State basketball co-captains,
Cliff Hafer and John Maglio, paid
$238 in campus parking fines be-fore
12:30 p. m. deadline, and reg-istered
for the spring semester.
Had the fines not been paid, the
two athletes would not have been
permitted to register and would
have been ineligible to play in
that night's basketball game
against Clemson. Hafer owed $106
in $2 fines for campus parking
violations, and Maglio owed $132.
An interesting communication
was received from an EMCOE
fan, William R. Sullivan of Los
Angeles, who says, "Fines do not
seem to be the answer to our
traffic violations. Better results
might be obtained by impounding
the car. If we had to do without it
for a while we might begin to
understand about the rights of
the road."
The duties of the full-time per-son
to be hired at Eastern, ac-cording
to the Building and
Grounds Committee, will be:
1. Stop each car and ask the
driver about the re-registration
of the car. In this step, the person
could act as an "on-the spot" reg-istrar
of cars.
2. Give warnings.
3. Administer fines.
Under consideration by the
Building and Grounds Committee
is a proposal for making a semi-permanent
parking area south of
the B.L. & I. ditch. Under this
proposal, new parking areas south
of the Science and Education
Buildings would be established.
The committee agreed that stu-dents
failing to register their cars
and also having past violations,
will be held responsible for both
fines. These regulations will be
enforced in the near future, com-mittee
members said.
AIDS SPANISH STUDENTS
Dr. Dwight 0. Chambers, chair-man
of the Modern Language De-partment
at Eastern, has given
valuable assistance to a group of
Spanish Americans, who have ap-plied
for citizenship, according to
Mrs. Clinton G. Pierce of the
Zonta Club.
Members of the group are mak-ing
good progress in learning Eng-lish,
it has been reported. Two
groups, who are studying for their
citizenship examination, have had
Dr. Chambers as consultant.
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IN STUDENT UNION
The problem of coffee cups and
dishes being left on the tables in
the Student Union lunch room still
continues, according to members
of the Student Union Board.
Keeping the number of employ-ees
at a minimum in the lunch
room is one of the reasons for the
low prices charged there. Should
it become necessary to hire some-one
to bus the dishes, an increase
would undoubtedly result.
Everyone can help with this
situation by taking their coffee
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"Shadow and Substance" is being presented tonight, Friday and Saturday night, in the Multi-purpose
room of the Education Building. Student activity tickets will be honored at the door. The
arena-type play is a two-act tragic comedy, with the setting in Ireland. Among the characters
are those shown above. They are, from left to right, Pat Beck, Larry Anderson. Ray J. Harshfield,
Roger DeBourg, and Ron Sexton,
Leiters Awarded Cage
Stars at Dinner
Approximately 72 persons at-tended
the annual Eastern basket-ball
dinner, which was held in the
Student Union Building last Sun-day.
Toastmaster and co-captain
of the basketball team, John Dee-ney,
introduced the following
speakers: President A. G. Peter-son,
Dr. Harold "Shorty" Altero-witz,
chairman of the Health,
Physical Education and Recrea-tion
Dept.; Keith Thomas, coach
of the Junior Varsity basketball
team; and Gerry Polesky, co-cap-tain
of the basketball team.
Varsity letters were awarded to
the following: Gerry Polesky, John
Deeney, John Dracon, Harry
Svela, Ken Benner, and George
McLouff, all of Billings; Lynn
Homer of Dixon; Jim Haugen of
Sidney; Don Marlow of Stanford;
Nick Jurkovich of Red Lodge;
Tom Mercer of Hyattville; Dean
Henderson of Noxon; and Gene
Kiser of Green River, Wyo.
Junior Varsity letters were
granted to: Duke McDermott, Jim
Pratt, Ron Ewing, Corwin Al-brecht,
Jim Vukonvich, Frank
Gallagher, Barry Markuson, and
Lloyd Lockrem, all of Billings;
Bill Hilton, Ted Norman, and Mar-vin
Carter of St. Ignatius; Bob
Smith and Charles Howe of Great
Falls; Warden Fenton of Hysham;
Jim Nucum of Baker; Don Rider
of Hardin; Larry Esp of Big Tim-ber;
and Don Cramer of Forsyth.
Other honored guests attending
were: Dean and Mrs. Lincoln Ai-kins,
Dean and Mrs. Charles
Price, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. John-son,
Wally Streeter, Dr. and Mrs.
Dale Daugherty, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Lutzker, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Peiss, Mr. and Mrs. "Red" Welsh,
Mr. and Mrs. John Arp, Miss Lu-cille
Murray, Miss Angeline Ek-strand;
parents, relatives and
wives of several of the players;
and the cheerleade rs, Pat Fergu-son,
Kathy Jabs, Marion Listoe,
Ida Jones, and Ila Hart.
Entertainment was provided by
Miss Ferguson and Miss Listoe,
and the evening was culminated
by the beautiful candlelight cere-monies
of the "E" Club.
SPOTTED FEVER SHOTS
The second in a series of tick
shots will be conducted in the
Health Services Department on
Friday, March 1, between 9 and
10 a.m., according to Miss Berna-dette
Martin, Director of Health
Services.
EASTERN'S SWEETHEART
Sally Fraser was crowned
Sweetheart Queen by Mick Miller,
Sophomore class president, at the
Ball held last Saturday night. The
Queen and her attendants each
received an Eastern Gold Seal.
The Sweetheart Ball was well
a t t end e d by students. The
St. Valentine theme was carried
out with mobiles and table dec-orations.
The Queen's attendants
were Beverly Dubuque, Kathryn
Erickson and Gail Birkeland.
Miss Fraser is a popular fresh-man
student, majoring in sec-ondary
education.
Much credit for the success of
the dance goes to Gerry Ruff and
her committee heads, Ted Clark,
Kathy Jabs, Kathy Erickson, Bev-erly
Dubuque, Peggie Burtness,
Carol Twedt, and Dean Graunke.
Forensics Group Enters
Oregon Tournament
Three speech students will rep-resent
the college at the Inter-collegiate
Tournament of Cham-pions
at Linfield College, Mc-
Minnville, Oregon, in a forensics
tournament March 6 to 10, ac-cording
to Dean F. Graunke, EM-CE
director of forensics.
The invitational tournament is
the oldest one of its kind in the
West, with west coast college en-tries
dominating, Graunke said.
There will be entries from Stan-ford,
University of Washington,
Oregon, California, and every state
west of the Mississippi. Some
Eastern universities will also be
represented in this tournament.
Representing Eastern will be
Terrence Taylor, Ron Fisher and
Jacqueline Swan. Taylor and Fish-er
will be paired in debate and
will enter interpretative readings
and impromptu speaking. Miss
Swan will be entered in interpre-tative
readings and Women's Con-gress.
The Congress and impromptu
speakers will discuss the issue of
World Disarmament. The Discon-tinuance
of Foreign Aid, which
has already been used by the EM-CE
debate squad, will be contin-ued
in the Oregon tournament.
The trio will deliver excerpts
from Billy Budd, Anastasia, and
Dial M for Murder.
Hornets to Tangle in
District Cage Tourney
The Eastern Yellowjackets will
be one of the teams entered in
the District 5 NAIA basketball
tournament, which will be played
in the Shrine Auditorium March
4 and 5, according to Coach Shorty
Alterowitz. The District 5 tourna-ment
was recently transferred
from Bozeman to Billings.
The winner of the tournament
at the Shrine will compete in
the national basketball tourna-ment
on March 11 to 17.
Three powers in the Montana
Collegiate Conference, Rocky
Mountain College and Eastern
Montana College of Education,
both of Billings, and Western
Montana College of Education of
Dillon, will be in the tourney.
The fourth team will be North-west
Nazarene College from Nam-pa,
Idaho. Rocky, with an 18-5
record, and Northwest Nazarene,
19-5, will meet in one of the open-ing
games and Western and East-ern
tangle in the other.
Each team is allowed 10 play-ers
in the tourney and the winners
of the first night's play meet for
the district championship and a
trip to the national, Herb Klindt
said.
Eastern and Western meet in the
opener at 7:15 p. m. March 4 and
Rocky and Nazarene battle in the
second game.
IS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
The chairmanship of the Audio-
Visual Techniques Committee of
t h e American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portu-guese
has been accepted by Dr.
Dwight 0. Chambers, chairman of
the Modern Language Department
at Eastern.
Professor C. A. Tyre of New
Mexico College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts is president of
AATSP. A national organization,
it is the largest specific language
organization of its kind.
Vol. 10, No. 19 Eastern Montana College of Education, Billings February 28, 1957
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'Four American Painters
An art exhibit, "Four American
Painters" giving a survey of what
is being done in painting in Am-erica
today, is being shown from
now until March 25 in the Stu-dent
Union lounge at Eastern
Montana College of Education.
The Billings ' Arts Association
and EMCE Art Department are
co-sponsors of the exhibit, ac-cording
to Miss Isabelle Johnson,
chairman of the EMCE Art De-partment.
Organized by the Du-veen-
Graham Galleries in New
York, the exhibit has been shown
in a number of Western cities.
Some of the paintings in the
show are 58 x 68 inches in size.
The modern American painters
represented are Keith Martin, At-tilio
Salemme, Irving Kriesberg,
and Karl Holty.
The exhibition will be open to
the public daily from 8 a. m. un-til
5 p. m. and evenings Mon-day
through Thursday from 7
until 10 o'clock.
A special showing of the ex-hibit
will be made on Sunday,
March 3. There will be a coffee
and reception in the EMCE Stu-dent
Union lounge from 6 until
9 p. m.
At the reception, Bob Morrison
of the Billings Public Schools
Exhibit Being Shown
will give a Gallery talk at 7 p, m,
Miss Isabelle Johnson will give
another Gallery talk at 8 p. m.
Those in charge of the recep-tion
are Mrs. Walter Gray, Mrs.
Fay Kuhlman, Virginia Snook,
Orlin Helgce, Peggy Burtness and
Sharon Bumgarner.
FIELD THEORY OF LAUGHTER
It cannot be denied that laughter is universal; however the things
that make people laugh are as varied and multifarious as individuals
themselves. The element of incongruity remains constant in all humor,
but just what appears incongruent and why, are questions with not
so constant answers. There is an educational theory, that not only
explains the inadequate incongruity theory, but clarifies it to meet
all situations. It can be stated as follows: the amount of laughter
is equal to the exposure of the individual to congruity as it is revealed
in textbooks (formal education) over the incongruity observed (hum-orous
situation).
The diligent student will observe that there may be some in-consistency
in interpreting just what appears incongruent to dif-ferent
people. This inconstant can be resolved by another equation
stated thus: what appears incongruent to an individual equals his
ideals divided by the subtlety with which these ideals are under-mined.
Where as the first equation deals with the amount of humor
and subsequent laughter.
These two equations can be seen in operation in our every day
lives. In order to simplify the multi-runged academic ladder we will
divide it into four broad areas, or groups, analogous (which is the
only way truth can be explained) to the different stages of film de-velopment
found in photography. We shall simply call them the
"new" the "exposed" the "negative" and the "developed" stages,
in which the film, shutter and image are analogous to one's mind,
the textbook and the mental impression from the textbook, respec-tively.
The first section, or the "new" group is so-called because an in-dividual
in this stage has not yet absorbed any textual material, and
is generally on the first plain of experience, i.e. the physical. Al-though
this type is found throughout the gamut, it is most prominent
in the age group three to six. An example of someone in this division
would be the little boy who sees a dog wearing a hat. His ideal belief
is that only people wear hats; there is little subtlety in the situation,
therefore the laugh, explosive though it may be, is short-lived.
The second group, or the "exposed" level, embraces all who have
begun the art of learning. By no means master of the printed volume,
they are at least aware of it and its orderly presentation of life.
This group represents all students up to, and including, the twelfth
grade. Upon hearing someone went into a crematorium and asked,
"What's cookin?" they would laugh and accept the situation as hum-orous.
Although this situation is on a higher plain than the last one,
because it reveals incongruity in a person's mental make-up as well
as a humorous physical situation, it still fails to meet the require-ments
of the last two stages. There it would draw a gutteral "uuoauh"
or maybe a orderly "Ha (pause) Ha (pause) Ha."
The "negative" level of academacy comes into its own during the
first three years of college. This is a time when many of the organ-ism's
beliefs are being settled, and one of these beliefs is not to be-lieve
anything too firmly. In this area, the world becomes a rigid
machine, each cog representing a body of knowledge with its little
cogs and gears. Here, in order to be humorous, an incident or object
must have a further departure from congruity. The proportion of
subtlety must also be increased. The story of the well-dressed in-dividual
who ordered a meal in a fancy restraunt would be appropri-ate
here. When asked why he smeared the spaghetti all over his hair
and face, he exclaimed, "Spaghetti, I thought it was succotash!"
The last class, or the "developed" is a unique group—they are
college seniors. Long hours or reading exact textbooks, and of fol-lowing
immutable study-schedules have prepared them for the life to
follow. Mere humor and plain subtlety will riot cause their lips to
part and form a condescending smile, much less laugh. It takes some-thing
far different, something like this: "What's the difference be-tween
a banana?—An orange because it hasn't got a vest!" The laugh
doesn't come immediately. When he does comprehend the significance
of this compact bit of complete nonsense in a clocklike universe it is
too much. A joke like this will be good for hilarious roars as well as
deep chuckles for a good many years to come. If any would scoff at
this final illustration (especially you who are not seniors), let him
read it closely after he has had his nose in a nine-hundered and
thirty-two page text book for three hours.—Bob Halverson.
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Science Students Gain Best Foundation at Eastern
Science and Mathematics Departments Note a
Decade of Progress on the Eastern Campus
The decade ending with the
year 1956 is a decade of progress
for the Department of Mathe-matics
and Science at Eastern
Montana College. Starting with
one instructor, with courses for
elementary teachers in rock study
and bird study, the decade shows
a gradual change to nine full or
part time instructors, and courses
in the principal branches of sci-ence
and mathematics, biology,
chemistry, botany, bacteriology,
physics, zoology, and mathemat-ics,
and providing for curricula in
all the leading pre - professional
fields in science.
From a physical standpoint,
teaching 10 years ago was all done
in two rooms on the third floor
of the Administration Building;
while now the department of sci-ence
and mathematics occupies the
major portion of a modern build-ing
with splendid laboratories,
and in the near future will need
the entire building and will need
to equip at least two more rooms
as laboratories.
Prof. William Hoheisel, who
teaches courses in zoology, gener-al
biology, anatomy and physi-ology,
ornithology,general geology
and others, is the senior member
of this faculty, and was the only
member of the science and math-ematics
staff as the decade opened.
He was the first chairman of the
department, and has been chair-man
twice.
The chairmanship of the science
department is on a rotation basis
with various members of the fac-ulty
taking terms for a year at
a time, in order of their senior-ity.
The current chairman is Ol-iver
W. Peterson. He and George
H. Gloege have also been chair-man
for two different terms.
One of the first things that Dr.
A. G. Peterson did when he took
the position of President of East-ern
was to bring in Dean Lincoln
J. Aikins to start a basic or junior
college curriculum. Mr. Aikins
has provided the leadership to de-velop
the various basic studies at
Eastern and in common with the
other curricula has been very
much interested in the develop-ment
of the Department of Sci-ence
and Mathematics.
Soon after his arrival at East-ern,
Dr. Peterson began plans for
the construction of the Science
Building, and in 1947 legislative
approval was given for the build-ing
which was then constructed
and opened officially for use in
the fall of 1949. This building is
one of the finest science buildings
of its kind and for uses for which
intended in this region. Its lab-oratories
are well lighted, spa-cious,
and nicely equipped for
the courses now being taught.
The Science and Mathematics
Department faculty members are
of at least two more laboratories,
which were "roughed in" when the
building was built for use as class-rooms
until they could be
changed and equipped as new lab-oratories.
At present there are
four biology laboratories on the
first floor, two chemistry and two
physics laboratories on the second
floor. Several of the classrooms
are set up for lecture demonstra-tions,
and there is an auditorium
which seats 210 persons.
With expansion of the science
and mathematics curriculum new
faculty positions opened. The sec-ond
member of the staff, Mr.
George H. Gloege, came in 1946,
and currently teaches courses in
general chemistry, qualitative
and quantitative analysis and or-ganic
chemistry. Mr. Oliver W.
Peterson came to Eastern in 1947
to teach mathematics and physics.
Miss Rosemary Milkovitch joined
the department in 1953 and teach-es
mathematics.
Dr. Dallas A. Sutton and Dr.
Wilson F. Clark came to Eastern
in 1954. Dr. Sutton teaches gener-al
biology, botany, zoology, bac-teriology
and courses in the teach-ing
of science in the elementary
schools. Dr. Clark's field is the
conservation of natural resources,
and in addition he is currently
teaching general physics and gen-eral
chemistry.
Mr. 0. L. Alm, who is registrar
at Eastern joined the staff in 1955
and teaches introduction to phys-ical
science and science for sec-ondary
teachers. Mr. Edwin Dol-ney
joined the staff in 1956 to
teach mathematics. Mr. Jack S.
Gordon, who is associated with
a consulting engineering firm,
teaches mechanical drawing and
descriptive geometry.
The expansion in the depart-ment
of science and mathematics
has been the result of a gradual
increase in the number of students
pursuing courses in science, and
enrolled in the many pre-profes-sional
science curricula. Begin-ning
courses in science and math-ematics
are taxing the facilities
available, and several of the
courses have enrollments in ex-cess
of 100 students, which calls
for the sectioning of the labora-tory
work into smaller groups to
accommodate them.
While it may seem unusual for
a college of education to offer
such an extended science and
mathematics curriculum, it should
be pointed out that in addition to
supplying training in these fields
to prospective teachers, the college
has 50 percent of its students in
non-teaching fields, and is fur-nishing
its services to the youth
of Eastern Montana in preparation
for professional training in many
fields in addition to teaching.
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A secondary education student-teacher from Eastern, Roger
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Carroll also lead at halftime,
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it with two consecutive baskets
by Svela and Dracon.
Eastern Lineup: Dracon (19),
Kiser (18), Polesky (12), Deeney
(11), Benner (10), Svela (7),
Mercer (3).
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Hornets Drop Finale
In Closing Seconds
As a climax to the Montana
Collegiate Conference basketball
schedule, Eastern fought its hard-est
game against Carroll College
Friday night.
During the entire season, the
final seconds of play have decided
almost every important contest.
One of these games with Rocky
ended in a 61-60 defeat. The
Jackets, however, have also been
on the winning end of such fi-nales.
The Hornets defeated the West-ern
Bulldogs 74-70 and 68-65.
Carroll bowed to the Yellowjack-ets
in the last seconds of the pre-vious
contest 70-68.
The score, Friday night, was
knotted 17 times. With only five
seconds remaining, the winning
basket was scored by Carroll
Saints and the defeat was an 82-
80 loss for the Yellowjackets.
Like many colleges and univer-sities
throughout the nation, East-ern's
parking problem continues,
according to Mr. M. E. Johnson,
chairman of the Building and
Grounds Committee. By commit-tee
action, a full-time person will
be added to the college's Main-tenance
Department to look after
parking problems.
It was reported that only about
one--fourth of the cars on the
campus have been re-registered
to date. Students must re-register
their cars, according to the state
regulations, and warnings and
fines will be adminitsered as soon
as the additional person has been
hired, the committee reports.
Some colleges, including UCLA
and Denver University, are charg-ing
daily fees for parking of cars.
Strict regulations have also been
instituted at Montana State Col-lege
at Bozeman and Montana
State University at Missoula.
A recent news report from Ral-leigh,
N. C. reports the North Car-olina
State basketball co-captains,
Cliff Hafer and John Maglio, paid
$238 in campus parking fines be-fore
12:30 p. m. deadline, and reg-istered
for the spring semester.
Had the fines not been paid, the
two athletes would not have been
permitted to register and would
have been ineligible to play in
that night's basketball game
against Clemson. Hafer owed $106
in $2 fines for campus parking
violations, and Maglio owed $132.
An interesting communication
was received from an EMCOE
fan, William R. Sullivan of Los
Angeles, who says, "Fines do not
seem to be the answer to our
traffic violations. Better results
might be obtained by impounding
the car. If we had to do without it
for a while we might begin to
understand about the rights of
the road."
The duties of the full-time per-son
to be hired at Eastern, ac-cording
to the Building and
Grounds Committee, will be:
1. Stop each car and ask the
driver about the re-registration
of the car. In this step, the person
could act as an "on-the spot" reg-istrar
of cars.
2. Give warnings.
3. Administer fines.
Under consideration by the
Building and Grounds Committee
is a proposal for making a semi-permanent
parking area south of
the B.L. & I. ditch. Under this
proposal, new parking areas south
of the Science and Education
Buildings would be established.
The committee agreed that stu-dents
failing to register their cars
and also having past violations,
will be held responsible for both
fines. These regulations will be
enforced in the near future, com-mittee
members said.
AIDS SPANISH STUDENTS
Dr. Dwight 0. Chambers, chair-man
of the Modern Language De-partment
at Eastern, has given
valuable assistance to a group of
Spanish Americans, who have ap-plied
for citizenship, according to
Mrs. Clinton G. Pierce of the
Zonta Club.
Members of the group are mak-ing
good progress in learning Eng-lish,
it has been reported. Two
groups, who are studying for their
citizenship examination, have had
Dr. Chambers as consultant.
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The problem of coffee cups and
dishes being left on the tables in
the Student Union lunch room still
continues, according to members
of the Student Union Board.
Keeping the number of employ-ees
at a minimum in the lunch
room is one of the reasons for the
low prices charged there. Should
it become necessary to hire some-one
to bus the dishes, an increase
would undoubtedly result.
Everyone can help with this
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